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The Sincere Convert
The sincere convert discovering the paucity of true believers and the great difficulty of saving conversion by Tho. Shepherd ....The sincere convert discovering the paucity of true beleevers and the great difficulty of saving conversion by Tho. Shepheard ....
London: printed by T.P. and M.S. for Humphrey Blunden, 1641
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
We may truly and safely say of our Divines and writers, the voice of God, and not of man: Such abundance of the Spirit hath God poured into some men, that it is not they, but the Spirit of the Father that speaks in them.
We may truely and safely say of our Divines and writers, the voice of God, and not of man: Such abundance of the Spirit hath God powred into some men, that it is not they, but the Spirit of the Father that speakes in them.
What infinite cause hath this age to acknowledge the unspeakable mercy of God in affording us such plenty of spiritual Tractates full of Divine, necessary & conscience ⟨image 4⟩searching truths, yea precious soul-comforting, and soul-improving truths? such whereby Head, heart, and soul-cheating errors are discovered and prevented; such as soundly difference true grace from all seemings and paintings. No time, no Nation exceeds us herein; and shall we that abound in truths be penurious in praises?
What infinite cause hath this age to acknowledgthe unspeakable mercy of God in affording us such plenty of spirituall Tractates full of Divine, necessary & conscience ⟨image 4⟩searching truths, yea precious soule-comforting, and soule-improving truths? such whereby Head, heart, and soule-cheating errours are discovered and prevented; such as soundly di••erence true grace from all seemings and paintings. No time, no Nation exceeds us herein; and shall we that abound in truths be penurious in praises?
Consider Reader, whether Spiritual truths be not worthy of thy choicest praises. Every Divine truth is one of Gods eternal thoughts, it's Heaven-borne, and bears the image of the most High. Truth is the glory of the whole sacred Trinity. Hence the Spirit is called Truth.